SBStatusBarController is a singleton class that manages the status bar. You can access the singleton instance with the nonstandard method as follows:
+(id)sharedStatusBarController
Double Height Status Bar
There are a few methods used generally for a double height status bar.
-(void)setDoubleHeightMode:(int)mode glowAnimationEnabled:(BOOL)enabled bundleID:(NSString *)id;
-(void)setDoubleHeightMode:(int)mode glowAnimationEnabled:(BOOL)enabled bundleID:(NSString *)id priority:(int)priority;
These methods activate and deactivate the double height status bar. The parameters are as follows:
- mode: Generally, color of the status bar. Options are listed below:
- 1: Green, fixed text: "Touch to return to call".
- 2: Red. Text is in the form "PREFIX STATUS".
- 3: Red. Appears to be the same as 2.
- 4: Blue, used in tethering. Form is "STATUS".
- enabled: Controls the glowing of the status bar.
- id: Bundle ID to set the mode for. Can be nil, but not suggested.
- priority: Not sure, but assumed to be the priority for this bundle ID and the double height status bar.
-(void)clearDoubleHeightStatusBarForBundleID:(NSString *)bundleID;
-(int)doubleHeightMode;
Sets or clears the double height status bar mode.
-(void)setDoubleHeightPrefixText:(id)text bundleID:(NSString *)id;
-(id)doubleHeightPrefixText;
-(void)setDoubleHeightStatusText:(id)text bundleID:(NSString *)id;
-(id)doubleHeightStatusText;
These methods set and retrieve the status bar text. For different modes, different portions of the text is used, see above for details. Parameters:
- text: The text that you wish to set.
- id: The bundle ID you wish to set the text for,
References
- Header: http://github.com/kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks/blob/master/SpringBoard/SBStatusBarController.h